I’m a couple of weeks behind on sharing this, but I was very pleased to see new CHILDCARE music arriving into my inbox recently. The first stand-alone track since debut album Wabi-Sabi sees the four-piece opening up a new chapter. Soooo much yes. Eagerly awaiting more music. Recorded at Somerset’s Distille Studios with producer Dom Monks (Laura Marling, Big Thief, White Denim) – the new track is exactly the sort of sonic patchwork that I love the band for. The grooviest of vibes, fun lyrics, vocal duelling and guitar parts that make me desperate to be watching them at a festival of some sort. Love this.
On the night behind the track, frontman Ian Cares explains “for [guitarist] Rich’s birthday I bought us tickets to an all-night gong experience. So we packed our sleeping bags and cereal bars and headed to a church in west London, with the promise to ‘release old and stale energy’, ‘energize your life’ and ‘allow your soul surround your body'”.